1. Judith Butler says "gender is never fixed and always fluid." What do you think she means?
2. Donna Haraway states that the relationship between people and technology is so intimate that it is no longer possible to tell where we end and the machine begins. Does this idea resonate in your own life? How?
3. Donna Haraway says that being a cyborg is not about silicone under your skin or prosthetics but realizing that, for example, a gym is a place that would not exist without the idea of the body as a high performance machine. Are you a cyborg? Why or why not?
4. In a number of occupations men still earn more money than women for similar responsibilities. What could be some of the contributing factors to this inequality?
5. Why does there continue to be occupational sex segregation, and how does segregation relate to the earnings difference?
6. Do changes in female labor force participation lead to changes in the home environment (i.e., labor saving devices, divorce, fewer children) or vice versa?
The following are additional questions from Emily...
1. What is Haraway purporting to do in her cyborg manifesto?
2. What is a cyborg?
3. Explain the significance of the cyborg's illegitimacy.
4. How does Jameson define postmodernism?
5. Is there anything about being female that binds women?
6. What is "oppositional consciousness"?
7. What new kind of working class is being produced by the "New Industrial Revolution"?
8. Discuss women's place in the integrated circuit in relation to the Clinic-Hospital.
9. What is Haraway's argument in "Women's Place is in the Jungle?"
10. Discuss the concept of time in the West.
11. What is the relationship between gender and sex?
12. What role do women play in the field of primatology in terms of work and publishing?
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